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Part 1 The weapons, should they be modernized?: NATO and Warsaw Pact theatre nuclear forces; why NATO wants to modernize its theatre nuclear forces; why critics do not want NATO to modernize its theatre nuclear forces; what does modernization mean - the arguments applied; the political spectrum - parliamentary opinion in NATO countries; to modernize or not to modernize? Part 2 The decision, how should it be made?: decision-making in NATO - how it works; decision-making in NATO - the modernization of theatre nuclear forces; critique of the NATO decision-making process - the claim that decisions are neither democratically made nor democratically accounted for; defence of the NATO decision-making process - the claim that decisions are made freely by a consensus of democratically elected governments accountable to their national parliaments; when is a decision a decision?; when is democracy democratic?.